Spoiler alert: This article is not very funny. At first glance, Australian PM Tony Abbott is God’s gift to political comedy. Like George Bush Jr he gives at the personal level: his swimmers and his vocal…

The topic of “women in comedy” is endlessly controversial – as Adrienne Truscott seems to know.
MICFApril 3, 2014

Two performance artists in this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) – the UK’s Bryony Kimmings and American Adrienne Truscott – have a certain flavour of humour: it’s the knowing, self-deprecating…

We’re primed first to see women as objects of desire and to listen to their voices second.
Anne Edmonds, Melbourne International Comedy FestivalApril 1, 2014

What is it about stand-up comedy that makes it a more difficult space for a funny woman to conquer? A bunch of seasoned female stand-ups return to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) this…